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Edgren, August Hjalmar

soldier, educator, author, was born Oct. 18, 1840, in Sweden. He is a Swedish scholar who came to the United States in 1862, and served for a time in the federal army, and afterwards in the Swedish army.

Since 1884 he has been professor of languages in the university of Nebraska. He is the author of Complete Sanskrit Grammar; German and English Dictionary (with William D. Whitney); The Literature of America (in Swedish); Public Schools and Colleges of the United States; Swedish Literature in America; and American Antiquities.